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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING- N: h `! z- s6 m% r
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN; _4 M! D& N0 S" X. ^7 ~
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading" a' s: v" i L7 Q
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
$ O! F: b0 }: N/ ^# \Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the3 ^ w) V2 U3 d7 h r% D) B
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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; Q$ S9 |) w; u”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.* S! n# p: j5 ]# `2 d
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
( d+ s' o& F) Y3 U. S$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be/ w! [. \# O* { @
pure luck.
# U& Z8 t5 T7 ?”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
/ K& s5 S* ?1 z' I( hIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
" _$ _6 F A* _The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin0 B8 r" Y1 n k& S# f
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
; `1 a- a; r1 [( E4 GStreet watchdogs.* w: S0 h' J0 G6 \
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
" _4 a! }. {5 k4 D6 g$ YMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing# E, @% ?" e$ l; _, J- K- n; L) w
investigation.
4 I; t6 O8 i* \7 T3 V* ~When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling T' I* y& @* v) k
four-hour confession.. Y6 @; }. e! ^: @3 g1 d, R
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 Y. g+ a7 Q) e! sknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with1 d! v* g# Z8 U" q2 U' }& s
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
, g- | N& V" E4 E2 B. N”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
0 n% k+ {7 Z- ~make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught' S0 H. s* Z& J1 H: o
in the moment.”
9 \. S* z# |% F2 R) m) e# [In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of5 `: P$ ~& T. P& O0 G* J
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.9 k9 e& n$ N% s8 f1 |( ^- L1 \0 t
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
4 Q& B" ? O4 t/ _. vHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
1 o% X2 L( D* I4 n5 p; |the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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